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Executive Summary: The 2018 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference: Aligning the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Agenda to Reduce Health Outcome Gaps
Author(s) -
Ishimine Paul,
Adelgais Kathleen,
Barata Isabel,
Klig Jean,
Kou Maybelle,
Mahajan Prashant,
Merritt Chris,
Stoner Michael J.,
Cloutier Robert,
Mistry Rakesh,
Denninghoff Kurt R.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/acem.13667
Subject(s) - pediatric emergency medicine , medicine , scholarship , workforce , emergency department , knowledge translation , medical education , medical emergency , nursing , emergency physician , political science , law , horticulture , biology
Emergency care providers share a compelling interest in developing an effective patient‐centered, outcomes‐based research agenda that can decrease variability in pediatric outcomes. The 2018 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference “Aligning the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Agenda to Reduce Health Outcome Gaps ( AEMCC )” aimed to fulfill this role. This conference convened major thought leaders and stakeholders to introduce a research, scholarship, and innovation agenda for pediatric emergency care specifically to reduce health outcome gaps. Planning committee and conference participants included emergency physicians, pediatric emergency physicians, pediatricians, and researchers with expertise in research dissemination and translation, as well as comparative effectiveness, in collaboration with patients, patient and family advocates from national advocacy organizations, and trainees. Topics that were explored and deliberated through subcommittee breakout sessions led by content experts included 1) pediatric emergency medical services research, 2) pediatric emergency medicine ( PEM ) research network collaboration, 3) PEM education for emergency medicine providers, 4) workforce development for PEM , and 5) enhancing collaboration across emergency departments ( PEM practice in non–children's hospitals). The work product of this conference is a research agenda that aims to identify areas of future research, innovation, and scholarship in PEM .